Simulating Enron
The Good Life (Enron Simulator) by Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain was awarded a 2016 Rhizome Net Art Microgrant. The artwork recreates the experience of receiving all 500,000 emails from the Enron email...
View ArticleRinging out our 20th: Martine Syms & Josh Wolfe join the Board, Digital...
2016 was Rhizome's 20th anniversary year, and it was a transformative one for the organization—from the launch of our Webrecorder initiative and its later public release, to one of our best editions of...
View ArticleTactical Poetics: FloodNet's Virtual Sit-ins
This essay accompanies the presentation of Electronic Disturbance Theater's FloodNet as a part of the online exhibition Net Art Anthology.What is the relationship between data bodies and real bodies?...
View ArticleBrazil's 'Telematic Revolution'
This essay accompanies Eduardo Kac's 1985 work Reabracadabra as a part of the online exhibition Net Art Anthology.-In 1985, Brazil was following Europe and North America in their adoption of videotex...
View ArticleA Rose is a Rose is a --’--,--@
This is part of an ongoing series of reviews, edited by Orit Gat, which give critical attention to online artworks and exhibitions.Rose was my great-grandmother’s name. In Buffalo, New York, during the...
View ArticleA Girl Made of Language: Martine Neddam’s Mouchette
### Amsterdam, late summer of 1997. Pink posters appear around the city, pasted in grids. They feature a bitmapped image of a young girl, set into a floating browser window, a large computer mouse...
View ArticleSkins, Chips, and Stone of Jordans
When I first started playing Diablo 2 around the time of its release in 2000, I didn’t much care for playing online. I remember connecting to Diablo 2’s battle.net servers, clicking on the first...
View ArticleMezangelle, an Online Language for Codework and Poetry
This interview accompanies the Net Art Anthology presentation of work by Mez Breeze. In 1993, Australian artist and poet Mez Breeze began to develop her own online language, Mezangelle. Her Mezangelle...
View ArticleReview: Cinnamon Colomboscope
This is part of a series of reviews, edited by Orit Gat, which give critical attention to online artworks and exhibitions.Cinnamon Colomboscope (held in Colombo, Sri Lanka) is a simultaneously micro...
View ArticleReview: A Mystical Staircase
When I open the link to "A Mystical Staircase" I already have countless tabs open in several browser windows. Each tab has been assigned a logo, letters or symbols and pictograms that reference the...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Faith Holland
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have a significant body of work that makes use of or responds to network culture and digital technologies.Elizaveta Shneyderman: Your work Porn...
View ArticleOur First Social Media President, Through Three Webrecorder Narratives
We’ve reached the twilight hours of Barack Obama’s presidency.A typical transition period requires many handovers, but this year, one of these is an altogether new endeavor for a White House: turning...
View ArticleA Net Artist Named Google
This article accompanies the presentation of Alexei Shulgin'sForm Art as a part of the online exhibition Net Art Anthology.Alexei Shulgin was one of the most popular and influential members of the...
View ArticleNow online: The Second Edition of Open Score
The second edition of Open Score was copresented by Rhizome and the New Museum on December 10, 2016, and featured three session panels exploring the state of art and technology today. Convening...
View ArticleThe Valley and the Predator
This article accompanies the presentation of the Bureau of Inverse Technology'sBIT Plane as a part of the online exhibition Net Art Anthology.Under the auspices of the anonymous collaborative the...
View ArticleWatch Digital Social Memory: Ethics, Privacy, and Representation in Digital...
On February 4th, 2017, a group of archivists, artists, and legal experts convened at the New Museum for Rhizome’s Digital Social Memory conference. The day’s focus was on web archiving, with...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Seven on Seven 2017 Lineup
Rhizome's Seven on Seven conference pairs seven leading artists and seven visionary technologists, and challenges them to make something new: an artwork, a prototype, an idea, or whatever they...
View ArticleSeven on Seven 2017: Tickets, Schedule, Keynote, Raffle
Seven on Seven is Rhizome's flagship event, which brings together leaders of art and technology in creative collaboration. Today, we are pleased to announce that tickets to the 2017 edition are on...
View ArticleAutomatic Rain
This essay accompanies the presentation of JODI' s Automatic Rain as a part of the online exhibitionNet Art Anthology.The first work by JODI I ever saw blew my mind. Automatic Rain was one of ten works...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Devin Kenny
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have a significant body of work that makes use of or responds to network culture and digital technologies.Sable Elyse Smith: Much of your practice...
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